L0032185 Internal view of Noah's Ark

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/reviews/rebuilding-ark-alex-epstein-moral-case-fossil-fuels/"></div><p>In the 17th century, new facts about the world presented a problem for natural philosophers. They had learned of droves of new animals from the New World, previously unknown in Europe, that must have survived the Great Flood. This begged the question: how did Noah’s Ark fit all of them? Several thinkers made honest attempts to resolve the issue, including sketching increasingly preposterous schematics of the ship itself, in addition to devising clever, logic-twisting tricks of taxonomy — based on no evidence whatsoever — that “explained” the ability of the Ark to do as was written. Even in their own time, it was easy to see the cracks forming in the story. But it should not be at all surprising that learned men clung so desperately to their frame of knowledge and history, wanting everything they knew as true to remain so. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/reviews/rebuilding-ark-alex-epstein-moral-case-fossil-fuels/#more-4845" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Rebuilding the Ark: Alex Epstein and <em>The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels</em>

Rebuilding the Ark: Alex Epstein and The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Surveillance Valley

<strong>Eric Gade is a freelance writer and programmer, previously the project manager of the Declassification Engine project of Columbia University’s History Lab. He is also a contributor to the <em>Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions</em>.</strong>

Eric Gade

The Long View: Surveillance, the Internet, and Government Research

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Eric Gade is a freelance writer and programmer, previously the project manager of the Declassification Engine project of Columbia University’s History Lab. He is also a contributor to the <em>Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions</em>.